Ballads, English -- England -- Texts; Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts
prime, _six o'clock_.
prude, 31, _proud_?
put down, putten down, _executed_, _killed_.
quair, _choir_.
quha, _who_.
quick, _alive_.
raw, _row_.
reade, _advise_.
reave, _deprive_.
removde, 174, _stirred up_, _excited_.
renish, renisht, 161, 167?
rievers, _marauders_, _robbers_.
rigg, _ridge_.
rive, _riven_.
roode, _cross_.
room, 217, _make room_.
roudes, _haggard_.
round tables, _a game much played in the 15th & 16th century_.
row, _roll_;
rowd, _rolled_.
sackless, _guiltless_.
sald, _sold_.
sark, _shirt_, _shift_.
sat, _fitted_.
saye, 211, _essay_, _try_.
scale, _scatter_, _disperse_.
scath, _injury_.
scoup, 194, _go or fly_.
scuttle dishes, 273, _wooden platters_.
sea-maw, _sea-mew_.
see, (save and see,) _protect_
sell, _good_;
sell gude, _right good_.
sen, 280, _sent_.
sen, _since_.
send, _message_.
shanna, _shall not_.
shaw'd, _showed_.
sheen, _bright_.
shent, _disgraced_, _injured_.
shope, 39, _shaped_, _assumed_.
shot, _plot of land_;
also, _a place where fishermen let out their nets_.
shot-window, _a projected_, _over-hanging window_.[8]
sicker, sickerly, _sure_, _surely_.
side, _long_.
sindry, 301, _peculiar_.
skeely, _skilful_.
skink, _serve drink_.
slode, _slid_, _split_.
sloe, _slay_;
slone, _slain_.
smit, _a clashing noise_.
soum, _swim_.
spare, _the opening in a woman's gown_.
spille, _destroy_, _perish_
sta', _stall_.
staf, _stuff_.
stark and stoor, 254, _strong_, _and big_;
here we may say, _rough and rude_.
staw, _stole_.
steek, _stitch_, _thread_;
steeking, _stitching_.
steeked, _fastened_.
step-minnie, _step-mother_.
sterte, _started_.
stickit, 139, _cut the throat_.
stock, _the forepart of a bed_.
stoups, _flagons_.
stour, stower, 171, _fight_, _disturbance_.
stown, _stolen_.
streekit, _stretched_, _struck down_.
stythe, 43, _sty_.
suld, _should_.
swaird, _sword_.
sweven, _dream_.
swith, _quickly_.
syne, _then_, _afterwards_;
ere syne, _before now_.
[8] It "meant a certain species of aperture, generally circular, which
used to be common in the stair-cases of old wooden houses in Scotland,
and some specimens of which are yet to be seen in the Old Town of
Edinburgh. It was calculated to save glass in those parts of the house
where light was required, but where there was no necessity for the
exclusion of the air."--_Chambers._
Not always certainly, since persons are sometimes said to be lying at
the shot window.
tee, _too_.
tein, _suffering_, _grief_.
thae, _these_.
theek, theekit, _thatch_, _thatched_.
think lang, _feel weary_, _ennuyé_.
thir, _these_.
thocht lang, _grew weary_, _felt ennui_.
thole, _endure_.
thorn, 339, (and thorn'd, ii. 335,) _refreshed with food_?
thouch, _though_.
thought lang, _grew weary_, _felt ennui_.
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